Sun-sentinel Captures 26 Design Contest Awards

For the second consecutive year, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel is among the most-honored publications in the world for excellence in design, graphics and photography.

The Sun-Sentinel was presented with 26 awards this year by the Society for News Design, after receiving 23 last year.

Being recognized with some of the best-designed newspapers in the world was a considerable achievement, said Tim Frank, the Sun-Sentinel's Deputy Managing Editor for Visuals.

"This is the World Series of news design, so we're quite honored to be in this kind of company," Frank said. "It definitely speaks to the quality of the people across the whole visual team, and it really says something about the commitment to visual storytelling that this paper has."

Staff Photographer Mike Stocker received a Silver Medal, with special recognition from the judges, for his work in the series "Judaism's New Century."

One Silver Medal also was awarded to the paper for a features layout of ocean photography and two for a special section on the death of Pope John Paul II.

The Sun-Sentinel also received five Awards of Excellence for graphics and 17 Awards of Excellence for design and photography.

The New York Times received 85 awards from the society. Other top papers were the Los Angeles Times; El Mundo of Madrid, Spain; the Hartford Courant; The Boston Globe; the Plain Dealer of Cleveland; the Toronto Star; PM-zblico of Lisbon, Portugal; the San Jose Mercury News; the Sun Journal of Lewiston, Maine; and the Times-Picayune of New Orleans.

The competition was sponsored by Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication and the Society for News Design, a Rhode Island-based organization dedicated to excellence in visual journalism.